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well, this ought to keep him there for at least 5 hours...
(Nobody forced him to do this lol, he wanted to)

after about a half an hour, and about a quarter of an inch of a cut, we really needed to use the bandsaw for other things.
so me and one of my fellow teammates broke "the beast" out of its hiding place, and spent a good 10 minutes oiling it and making it run good...

this is "the beast":

Estimated time for freshman to cut block: 5 hours.
Actual time for the beast to cut the block: 1 hour and 10 minutes.

Oil used: about a quart. Almost every seal on the machine leaks constantly...there was a nice puddle on the cart that it sits on when it was done.

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Keeping the freshman busy is to have them cut drive shaft that has the special coating and the hard stuff, not soft. She got about 1/8 into it before I had to take over and I got another 1/8 into before I had to leave. We only have a hacksaw. And then they decided not to use it altogether so that was a waste of an evening for me but it was fun.

Keeping the freshman busy is to have them cut drive shaft that has the special coating and the hard stuff, not soft. She got about 1/8 into it before I had to take over and I got another 1/8 into before I had to leave. We only have a hacksaw. And then they decided not to use it altogether so that was a waste of an evening for me but it was fun.

Sorting out the drill bits is another fun task!

I had to cut the hardened steel shaft of a cim last year with a dremel...I think I broke like 7 disks...
but it was necessary to the design of the cool helical gearbox I designed for our conveyor system...

__________________ GRAB LIFE BY THE JOYSTICKS!
team member: 4 years
Mentor: soon to be 1